Dramatizing home and memory : Lady Mary Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

Findlay, Alison (2009) Dramatizing home and memory : Lady Mary Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth. Home Cultures, 6 (2). pp. 135-147. ISSN 1740-6315

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Abstract

The article discusses two plays by noblewomen: Lady Mary Sidney Herbert's translation The Tragedy of Antony (1998[1591]) and Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy Love's Victory (1614-16), to explore how drama, as a genre, provides unique opportunities for remaking home as a woman's space. Irigaray's vision of woman's self-dispossession within the home and Elizabeth Grosz's injunction to recover a female-centered chora, provide a framework to read the texts. Drawing on the classical idea of a memory-theater, the article analyzes how the scripts creatively manipulate relationships between domestic venues and settings in order to reshape memories and promote alternative constructions of woman's place.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Home Cultures
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/englishliteratureandcreativewriting
Subjects:
?? homememorymemory-theaterdramaearlymodernwomenenglish literature and creative writingcultural studiesvisual arts and performing artssocial psychologypr english literature ??
ID Code:
58740
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Deposited On:
01 Oct 2012 12:43
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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15 Jul 2024 13:17